Right-wing firebrand plans to hold rally at UC Berkeley

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos vowed Saturday to hold a rally at the University of California, Berkeley after a student group that planned a week of events with him called it off.

His announcement only added to a confusing turn of events surrounding "Free Speech Week," a four-day campus event slated to begin Sunday featuring right-wing firebrands.

The conservative student group Berkeley Patriot, which had been organizing the event, told university administrators Saturday that they would cancel it, the university said. The group's representatives told the San Francisco Chronicle they feared for their safety.

"It is extremely unfortunate that this announcement was made at the last minute, even as the University was in the process of spending significant sums of money and preparing for substantial disruption of campus life in order to provide the needed security for these events," UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said in a statement.

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